The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

摘要

In the space of just a couple of decades, the 1820s and 1830s, three momentous changes came about in the United States: universal (white, male) suffrage, a shift of economic and political power away from "elites" to the bur-geoning middle class, and the widespread adoption of mass production techniques. Each had the effect of reinforcing the others, and together they brought about what author Charles Morris calls the first American industrial revolution.